Getting a promotion

[DanielGemmell]

My uncle works at the same company as me as a contracts manager and I would someday like to have his job. I would find it helpful if any contract managers on this forum could tell me more (in detail) about the position.

Also can anyone tell me skills I could learn that would improve my chances of being kept in work

 

[trev]

Why not ask your uncle, he will have a better idea of what specifically your company will be looking for.

 

[morph]

My uncle works at the same company as me as a contracts manager and I would someday like to have his job. I would find it helpful if any contract managers on this forum could tell me more (in detail) about the position.

Also can anyone tell me skills I could learn that would improve my chances of being kept in work

surely ur uncle would be the best person to ask ???

 

[Top Cat]

Whats always worked for me in this type of situation is arsenic! Lol

 

[trev]

surely ur uncle would be the best person to ask ???

Unless he is an evil uncle who, once he realises what his nephew has in mind, will take him out into the woods and murder him.
I've been reading too many Brothers Grimm books lately

 

[DanielGemmell]

I was going to ask him but I just started in January and I don't want to sound to eager. He wouldn't mind me asking but I would prefer not to.
and trev I was also thinking that ( but not the murder but)

 

[trev]

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and trev I was also thinking that ( but not the murder but)

What, that I've been reading too much Brothers Grimm?
Well me grandson likes a bedtime story mate

 

[GLENNSPARK]

i thought you had to be pretty,..young n female (preferably single)..in order to notch up....sorry thats win a promotion now....

 

[Engineer54]

The youth of today!! I dunno, but he's only just started at this company, and already looking to be the contracts manager!!!! lol!!!

 

[Silly Sausage]

The youth of today!! I dunno, but he's only just started at this company, and already looking to be the contracts manager!!!! lol!!!

When I was a youth (70s), my cousin was a serious big wig in the CEGB.
Look at me now. Where did it all go wrong. :-(
I did heed some of his advice and not go into computing.

 

[johnboy6083]

im hoping for a promotionin the near future. I already have my 17th edition, NVQ3, 2330 L3, 2391, ive completed the theory exam of the 2391-2, and im currently half way through an autocad course. Im also very organised, and am used to steering people in the right direction. Im used to ordering materials for jobs, and im usually fairly accurate with my estimating for materials.

If i were you,i would first become the best tradesman you can be. Not only practically,as in learn as many different ways of doing the same job as possible, but also learn the theory behind it. If you see something youve not seen before, then ask questions, and go home and do your research. Volunteer for the awkward and most technical jobs, and if you hear opf a job that you thibnk you will learn from, then ask to go onthat job. Far too many apprentices get stuck on big jobs cutting unistrut for months on end for my liking. what does that teach them?

 

[UNG]

Far too many apprentices get stuck on big jobs cutting unistrut for months on end for my liking. what does that teach them?

How to cut Unistrut !! and possibly fabricate brackets

 

[johnboy6083]

How to cut Unistrut !! and possibly fabricate brackets

i should of seen that coming lol

 

[alarm man]

. Far too many apprentices get stuck on big jobs cutting unistrut for months on end for my liking. what does that teach them?

nothing wrong with that,i spent months when i was 16 bending conduit,fitting tray and trunk,for one it builds the puny muscles you have and its good expeirence,too many people want to be a foreman by the time they are 18 now,walk before you can run,and when the next apprentices come through you can give them the conduit work..:wink_smile:

 

[Engineer54]

How to cut Unistrut !! and possibly fabricate brackets

Teaches them how to install metallic containment systems, it's something you don't forget in a hurry!!

 

[johnboy6083]

Teaches them how to install metallic containment systems, it's something you don't forget in a hurry!!

it does, but i think that far too many blokes get given menial jobs that no-body else wants to do, not given jobs that will enhance their skills and knowledge. if n aprentice gets 6 months doing cable tray, 6 months pulling cables, then thatsa year of his aopprenticeship gone. only 3 more to go! i think that the jobs an apprentice goes to should be dictated by their needs if the situation allows.

 

[alarm man]

it does, but i think that far too many blokes get given menial jobs that no-body else wants to do, not given jobs that will enhance their skills and knowledge. if n aprentice gets 6 months doing cable tray, 6 months pulling cables, then thatsa year of his aopprenticeship gone. only 3 more to go! i think that the jobs an apprentice goes to should be dictated by their needs if the situation allows.

a years nothing,its all part of the apprenticeship,then learning how to pull cables into trunk and conduit,sounds easy,maybe one circuit at a time is but rack up those singles on a couple of pipe benders and pull in several circuits at the same time,takes time to master but once mastered save loads of time on a job,too many apprentices what to be testing by week 4,daft thing is loads of Electrical Trainee's would love a year doing trunk/tray/conduit,forget the term metal munching,its a skill that seems to be dying..imo ..

 

[UNG]

To be honest quite a chunk of my first year was brewing up and going to the paper shop, pie shop or chip shop all the usual gofer things that was all part of being a first year apprentice to actually get on the job and learn something was a bonus